Glyph at the end of every paragraph

Question

Hi. I'm working with InDesign 2026. I want to add a specific character at the end of every paragraph (see example). I don't know what is better: a nested style? A GREP style?

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

Hey Peter. It's working but when I change it the new character replaces the period at the end of the sentence (see image). Is there a way to exclude that from the find? In my example, I can add a period in the "Change to" field, but that will be aproblem when paragraphs end with different punctuation marks.

Is tehre a way around this?

Ugh, how silly. I missed that when I tried it. You'll have to use the first method (in the GREP tab) :

Find what: $

Change to:<Your character>

When you run that query again later, you'll end up with two (or more) of the characters at the end of the paragraph, which you can fix with the following query (assuming your character is x) :

Find what: x\Kx+

Change to: <Leave empty>

Peter Kahrel · Answer

You can't insert characters with a nested style or a grep style, you'll have to insert it using the Find/Change window. It's easy enough:

Find what: $

Change to: <Your character>

By looking for the end-of-paragraph marker ($) you are in fact looking for the paragraph's last insertion point, so the query inserts your character into that insertion point, i.e. at the end of the paragraph.

(Edit)

Better to use this (replace 'x' with your character):

Find what: [^x]$

Change to: x

so that you can run the query again after any paragraphs were added.

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